Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 October 1893 — Page 7

;. “"KNEE DEEP” - . : > C—— 5 They are calling “Knee deep'™ “Knee deep!"’ to-night in the marsh helow, : Down by the bank where the rank bualrushes and calamus grow. s Hark! how the anvils ring. as the silver hammers smite, v 5 To the chime of that old rhyme, all the golden summer night. < Over the swampy forge the sparks ot the fire- « flies rise; : < In the shadows, the maiden,lilies 'lean with languorous sighs : : e To - their lover, -the whip-poor will, who is " watched by the fluffy owl, : While the night—)gtwk shuffles by, a monk in a velvet cowl 3 And the bat weaves inky weft, through the white star beams that peep - Down through the cypress boughs, where the . frogs all sing: ‘“Knee deep.” Sometimes a song will beckon a -heart-broken ’ ‘man like me' " 7 + Back to the bygone years and the scenes that used to be - When this world was fenced from Heaven by one rose hedge and through - That bourne the blessed angels looked, and asphodel odors blew. ‘ So, listening to the. lilt of the minstrels among * " the reeis, ” . : My soul leaps out of it 3 human husk, into the . clover meads; -1 : ‘ And I see the storm-king ride the summer clouds-in state, ; - With chariot whip.of livid flame, and thunder billingsgate; e And watch the tawny tide, ‘mid the lush sword grasses creep, S While the frighted frogs all cling to the willows and sing: ‘“‘Knee deep.” ~ . Knee deep I wade 'in, the rippled creek, with buttercup bloom o’erblown, , Heaving like gold on beauty’s breast, its sheen . half hid, half shown; ) Knee deep in the saffron marigelds that prank y the meadows-fair, . Like a school of Saxon children, blue-eyed and -with yellow hair; - Knee deep in the whortle-berries-on the upland 'slope Istand,. i With torn straw hat half full, and a quail’s nest inmy hand; . ) ) Knee deep in amethyst autumn leaves, I rustle toward the place Where the pert and upright rabbit sits and washes her innocent face. e Song of the quivering culms and osiers! I sam wading agaih, in truth, Knee deep in the stream of memory, that flows from the land of youth. - . e —Robert Mclntyre, in Colorado Magazine. .

! I\ : - ; - il \‘\\‘ \, B AJ. HANNIR ‘w BAL SPAR’\\.’»9\ HAWK was / s - one of the large PREPE e e =5 and heavy men & %{%j of our town. ) 7/ SRR He was a born A”’ Nl / V. hero anda war(lA% N /\“’\\3 e, rior. His spirit ﬁ i Was martial ! Y 7 ‘(’// /, 8" and command- { Y (77 . s T \ W T : lng'. o He stood six feet two inches in his stockings and turned the beam of a true and trusted Fairbanks at two hundred and ten pounds avoirdupois. . He was the acknowledged leader of his party in our town and his party was in the ascendant. The major was not quarrelsome, but he was opinionated'and unyielding. He was too big a -man to quarrel and-too conscious of his own powers to yield a point in anything. ‘ ‘v - Maj. Sparhawk had lived a bachelor to the age of forty. At length, however, the erotic dart touched his heart, and he offered to take a wife and make her mistress of the wife’s appropriate department of his houce. Sylvia Aspen was a small, delicate woman, pretty and accomplished. | For several years she had taught the primary department of our common school, and the superintending committee was forced to acknmowledge that by no other teacher had the scholars ever been so thoroughly governed. She had seen thirty years of life and for reasons best known to herself she had refused all offers of marriage. And now .Maj.- Hannibal Sparhawk offered her his hand and his heart. . .

“Miss Aspen,” he said, in his. blunt, dictatorial way, ‘‘you hawve known me long enough and well enough to know something of the home I canprovide. If you take me you will take a rough, blunt man who.must be his own master through life. : *I have my own peculiar views of the true marriage relation. The man is the head of the household. I can love

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Hannibal Sparhawk kissed the little woman and assured her that he would ‘mever be tyrannical or unjust and the day for the wedding was fixed. People wondered, when it was published, that Sylvia Aspen was to become the wife of Maj. Sparhawk. ““She will be a slave and a drudge!” was the general opinion. : *“You don’t know what you are doing,” said a friend, who had known the major long and well. ‘“Hannibal Sparhawk will wear and fret the life out of you. He has the officérs of his regiment at his house as often asoncea week; and when they come they make a night of it. It's dreadful the way they earry on; and the punch and the wine that is drahk and the tobacco thay is smoked is beyomd account. You don’t think he will give up these things,

The major had planned to have the wedding a grand affair--to have his military friends present in full panoply, with & full band of music and appropriate fixings, but Sylvia- persuaded him® not. ©She said but Lttle, just encugh tomake him understand that it would please her to have it different, and he concluded to please her. ‘They had been married two weeks ‘when the major proposed that he would invite the officers of his regiment to dinner—staff and line, about fifty ‘of them. '

‘I suppose such a dinner means wine and tobacco, and plenty of it?” said Sylvia:: . =i L

“Certain_ly,” responded her husband. ‘““When I invite my friends to my house I expect to treat them according to the fashion of the times.*”

“Then, Hannibal, I would rather you did not invite them.”

The major laughed at the absurdity of his wife’s whim. lvia was mild but firm. = - ;

*Of course,” she said, with a smile, ‘“you will -do in this mattéer as you please.” : : “Of course—l will,” decldred the husband, emphatically. ‘You know what I told you in the beginning—l must be master in my own house.” “But,” interposed Sylvia, with the sweetest smile imaginable, ‘‘suppose I could show you that the greatest possible amount of comfort and joy you can find will come from pleasing me?” - t‘Eh?” 3 -

She kissed him and then'ran away.

Already Maj. - Hannibal Sparhawk felt a nipping at his'ear, as though something was biting it. s - Days and weeks passed and the officers of the grand old regiment were not invited to the proposed reunion at the major’s. o ' - It was whispered that his wife Would( nuot allow it, and yet when the officers individually had occasion to call at the major’s residence Sylvia treated them so kindly and so considerately and be stowed upon them: so much careful attention as friends of her husband that they went awdy loud in her praise. It was on a pleasant evening of the following spring that the social circle connected with our religious society met at'the major’s house. Late in the evening .2 koot of gentlemen were seated in'the great oriels of the back parlor, while at the -center table near by were a few of the ladies at work. In the oriel the conversation turned upon national affatrs. Deacon Rich advanced an idea in opposition to the cherished political opinions of his host. The major was fired in a moment. “I will tell you, sir!” he exclaimed, smiting his huge fist upon his knee, “tße political sentiments which—" Hark) o :

It was the tapping of a knitting needle upon the arm of Sylvia’s chair. The major looked up. and met the glance of his wifea He coughed and stammered, and then smiled as he said:

‘““We won’t enter into a political discussion in the presence of ladies. At another time, deacon, I will give you my opinion upon the matter.” On their way home Deacon Rich and Squire Lewis walked together. “Well, - deacon, what do you think now about poor little Sylvia’s daring to say her soul’s her own in the presence of her husband?” = et

“I am amazed,” confej‘issed the deacon. “Why, bless me! she rules him with a rod of iron.”” )

“And" yet,” suggested Lewis, “he seems happy and contented.” ‘‘Aye—and there’s the wonder. I can’t comprehend it—can you?” ~ “I think I can. Thereis one way, and one way only, in which a small, weak woman can entirely subjugate and control a brusque, herculean husband. The major is not governed against-his will —in fact, his wife does not direcaly govern him at all. She leads him to govern himself.” . e Other people wondered as Deacon Rich wondered, for it was apparent to all that the doughty man of war and bluster had become a model husband.

The only man, perhaps, who did not wonder was the. major himself. He was content with the prize he had gained. Once aifriend asked him if he was not governdd by his wife. : “No, sir!” was his emphatic reply. - “But you do her bidding, nevertheless.”?

*I do just-what pleases me,” said the major, loftily; “and if it pleases me to please my wife whose business is it?”— Boston Globe. :

A Nense of Justice.

In a certain town.in the great state of Michigan is {a justice of the peace who keeps a grocery, and among his customers are four or five poker players, who have had accounts running on his books ever since the year 1. Not long ago a drummer fell in with them, and after playing a small game somebody gave it away and the drummer was taken before the justice. “So,” said his honor, with a deep sense of outraged morality, ‘“‘you have been playing cards for money against the peace and dignity of the state?” “I don’t know about that, your honor,” responded the prisoner.’ : ‘“The wdrrant says so, sir,” insisted the court. i >

*‘Well, your honor, 1 will explain by saying I wasplaying with”’—naming the parties—‘‘and I took their due bills.”

The justice spurted up on the spot. “Pshaw!” he exclaimed in an undignified tone of disgust, ‘‘that.can’t be playing for money. The case is dismissed,” and the drummer walked out with a smile and took anotheér on the outside with' the court.—Detroit Free Press. i . %

Fuel of the Future.

~_Fritter—What are your ideas about the fuel of the future? ! ‘

Twitter—That i 8 a question that does not concern me. I have consciens, tiously tried to make my life such an exemplary one as to.relieve me of all’ fear of going where fuel will be neéded in the future. ;

Fritter—You quite misunderstand me. lam thinking of the rise in eoal and the necessity, soomer or later, of devising something to take its place. In the event then of a continued rise in coal, what do you think it would be best to burn? - : Twitter—ln such an event 1 should unhesitatingly advoeate burning the coal dealers.—Boston Courier. . . —At a recent exhibition in an English town the queen was present, with Princess Henry, of Battenberg. The local mayor, a highly respectable tradesman, accompanied by his wife, was of the royal party. As usual, the queen placed her name in the v;s%:u’ rook as ‘‘Victoria,” the princess followaf wih Bawisie” f'ﬂ'ﬁ“%; e mayor's wife, who, seeing what bad pag alore, wrole, with a bold, Sieed

| © A Matter of Health. ,’ Housekeepers faintly realize the ' danger of an iadiscriminate use of the pumerous baking powders nowadays found upon every hand, and which are urged upon consumers with such persistency by peddlers and many grocers ' on account of the big profits made in , their sale. Most of these powders are made from sharp and caustic acids and * alkalies which burn and inflame the alimentary organs and cause indigestion, heartburn, 'diarrhceal diseases, i ete. Sulphuric acid, caustic potash, ! burnt alum, all are used as gas-produc- ' ing agents in such baking powders. ' Most housekeepers are aware of the painful effects produced when these ' chemicals are applied to the external . flesh. How much more acute must be | their action upon the delicate internal ! membranes! Yet unserupulous manu- ’ facturers do not hesitgte to use them, | because they make a very low-cost ' powder, nor to urge the use of their | powders so made, by all kinds of allur- , ing advertisements and false representations. All the low-priced or so- ‘ called cheap baking powders, and all powders sold with a gift or prize, belong to this class. o e Baking powders made from chemically pure cream of tartar and bi-carbon- ' ate of soda are among the most useful | of modern culinary devices. They not ' only make the preparation of finer and - more delicious ceokery possible, but they have added to the digestibility and wholesomeness of our food. But baking powders must be composed of such pure and wholesome ingredients or they must be tabooed entirely. : Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health of New York, in an article in the *Doetor of Hygiene,” indicates that the adgntageéﬂ of a good baking powder and the exemption from | the dangers of bad ones in which the harsh and caustic chemicals are used, are to be secured by the use of Royal Baking | Powder exclusively, and Hhe recom-'.-mends this to all eonsumers. “The i Royal,” he says, ‘‘contains nothing but cream of tartar and soda refined to a chemical purity, which when combined under the inflaence of heat and moisture produce pure carbonie, or leavening, gas. The two materials used, cream of tartar and soda, are perfectly - harmless even when eaten, but in this preparation they are combined in ex“act compensating '+ weights, so that when chemical action begins between them in the dough they practically disappear, the substanee of both having ’ been taker to form carbonic acid gas.” ' Hence it lis, he says, that the Royal ’ Baking Powder is the most perfect of ' all conceiviable agents for leavening - purposes. fa 2 It seems almost incredible that any ' manufacturer or dealer should urge ' the sale of baking powders containing injurious chemicals in place of those of a well-known, pure, and wholesome character simply for the sake of a few cents a pound greater profit; but since they do, a few words of warning seem to be necessary. j ; i

Javanese at the Fair.

The people are small in stature, of a yvellowish-brown color, and the women have abundance of long glossy black hair; which they twist up into rather graceful knots, without either hairpins or combs to hold it in place. To be sure, the hair sometimes slips down, but they ‘calmly and déftly putitup again. Both men and women wear long pieces of colored calico wrapped around the hips, lapp:d over and pinned in front, forming a skirt, and short tunics or sacks, frequently of light blue. When working in the sun they wear straw hats like those of the Japanese. - Most of the Javanese were barefooted, but some wore American shoes and white stockings. A boy and a girl two or three years old, the smallest children 1 ever saw walking, Sat flat on the floor by a little table less than a foot high, and peaceably fed themselves with what looked like bread and milk.. The mother took the smaller child to her hip. When she dropped her banderchief it was amusing to see her pick it up with her toes,'and raise it to her hand with a motion much like that with which our own countrywomen pick up their trains. The women are very pretty when young, in spite of high cheek bones and-broad faces, having soft eyes, white teeth, clear smooth complexions. and a sweet, gentle expression. They sit or lie on the floor like children.—Harper’s Bazar.

A One Volume Man.

A curious example of generous obstinacy was a stout countryman who inquired for a nice book to read—*‘‘one with a story in.” On several being placed before him he examined themn attentively, and picked out the middle volume of a. “three-detker” with the remark: ‘This ’ere’s my sort. What’s the price?” : *“Oh,” was the reply, ‘this is only the second.volume; the story goes through three—the set is half a crown.”

“Hauve a crown! Well, I'll gie ye that for that one book. It’s a pretty un enough.” . “But won’t you have the other two as well? You'’d better!” Z

- “Naw! Idon’t like th’ beginnin’ of a story; I can’t get furrud wi’it. An’ 1 don’t like th’ endin’; 1 don’t know as ’ow it’s comed about. Butin th’ middle un 'm into t’ thick of it right off. No. I'll only tak’ th’ middle un; it’ll set me up for a month.” And, cramming the book into his pocket, he put dewn his half crown and disappeared with a “Good night!” before the other volumes could be given him.—Chambers’ Journal. g

Saved by s Narrow Margin.

‘“Been to lodge, have you, Absalom?” said Mrs. Rambo, in a metallic tone of voice. ; : : *‘Yes, m’ dear,” replied Absalom. : “What time does the lodge usually let out?” : SR e i *About—um—about eleven o’clock.” *“And what time do youm thinkit is now?” A : o

“Er—it’s about twelve, isn’t it?”

“It is half-past two. Does it take three hours and a half to come home?” . “Yes, m’ dear. Lodge bodies move slowly.” o And Mrs. Rambo went gaspingly upstairs to bed. —Chicago Record.

Took Him by Surprise.

‘“Oh, well,” said a Hartford (Conn.) photographer to a pickpocket who pulled his hat down over his eyes and averted his face, *‘it doesn’t make any difference to me whether you are pho. ‘tographed or not. [ get paid just the same.” ‘“‘ls that s 0?” exclaimed ‘the‘ fellow, as he looked up in surprise. The photographer mever got a better “picture of a crook than the one he eaught that moment.—N. Y. Times.

AGRICULTURALHINTS.

ROADS IN NEW JERSEY.

What Good Highways Have UDcne for Union €ounty.

The fact of the mafter is simply this: ‘The rural property in Union county was not prior to 1888 on the market at all. It was held, of course, at nominal value, but there were no purchasers. The roads before being improved were s 0 bad at times that grand juries brought presentments and found indictments against the road authorities on the very thoroughfares now so famous,. and the property along them was simply inaccessible at certain seasons of the year. The moment the roads were completed every foot of this property came into market and prices went up with marvelous rapidity, but not to o LN : 1 ’ 51y < # )\J/ - \ﬁ /) s /¥ Y I \\,,; Ursadd & Y/ Dot TS 8L A ¥ ,'_x\\ i M.TMW\* (g, i i ;//mvxxfi/u/{/,/,_/_,,; & QW «@ik"”‘!‘:;‘-‘wﬁﬂ. . v T £ e ————— — e - =S . AN IMPROVED ROAD. Scene on new county road (Telford) between Elizabeth and Plainfield, N. J. An immense ‘wagon traffic is carried on over this road since its completion two years ago, and one team can easily haula load of\ four tons over its surface. —From photograph. - ’ such an extent as to create fictitious wvalues. ; , Here are some of the instances in proof: : , o In 1888 the property on the road from Elizabeth to Plainfield, commonly known as Westfield avenue, was offered for sale at $lO per froni foot, Some of it within the city limits, sewered, curbed and improved. As soon as this county road was finished it went up to $3O, and is rapidly being built up.. , ‘Senator John R. McPherson purchased about one hundred and twentyfive acres just outside the city line, and contemplates opening new streets, paving and improving them and building on them a large number of fine houses at once. ~ : Between the senator’s property and Lorraine are two farms. One ‘was bought for $6,000 just before the roads were built; no improvements have been since put upon it, and the owner de-. clines $30,000 for it§ It contains twenty acres. The owner of the second farm has been offered over $l,OOO an acre for it but declines to sell at that price.” Next comes Lorraine, the first of the new railroad ' stations. In August, 1891, a tract of thirty-six agres was bought by a syndicate for sg,ooo. It has been divided up into building lots and sold for about $55,000, and about twenty-five cottages, some of them very pretty, now stand on these lots. Three acres adjoining this tract were sold for $2,000 after property began to feel the effects of the roads, and have since been sold again at an advance of 300 per cent.

On the south side of the railroad track another tract of thirty-six acres was opéhed up last-year. It wasbought for $21,000. It is divided into lots selling at $l5O to $2OO each, and will probably net the owners $BO,OOO. - ;

The second station was built to.accommodate property owners of Aldene, just west of Roselle. This tract was a farm of about sixty acres, and was bought for $l5O an acre after the roads were built; and the price was then considered big. It has since been sold off in building lots, realizing about $1,500 per acre, and the capitalists have purchased two hundred more acres in the same locality, and are realizing on it at about ‘the same ratio. Houses are being built on both tracts, and the prospects favor therapid improyement of all the'lots.—Good Roads. .

DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

THE prospect for a good price for dairy products this winter seems good. * LoosE methéds or no method at all and scrub cows make a big leak on the farm. a

THE cow that has nothing but ‘a ‘burnt up pasture to feed on ought not to be expected to yield a profit. - MAEE good butter and send it to a city market. There is no money in selling butter at the country store. DoEs grain raising pay you? Well, no. Then why not try dairying? That has been found to pay when the price of grain was much better than now. . MiLK is now in disfavor with some ‘of the doctors for feeding infants. They say that disease so often comes from sickly cows that it is dangerous. Anybody who tries can get healthy milk. THE best cow bred is none too good for the farmer who will take good care of her. It is the farm dairy that pro-. duces most of the butter and the farm dairy should, be fully eauipped with all modern im}émvements, including the best cow. 'But the cow is only a machine. She musthave good care like any other magchine, or she will wear out before she should, and not be able to do the work: that she does do as efficiently as she might.—Farmers’ Voice.

Roads as a Social Factor,

The common roads of a country are &t once the- means and measure of its civilization, writes John Gilmer Speed in an exchange. ' Withont means of communicating easily and quickly from one part of a country to all other parts there can b%no very widespread civildzation in that country Neighborhoods and states separated from each other by natural barriers or bad roads stagnate in loneliness and are seldom awakened by common impulses of sympathy. 4 It is doubtful indeed” says Prof. Shaler, of Harvard, “whether a sound democracy, depending. as it does on close and constant interaction of the local life, can well be maintained in a country where the roadways put a heavy tax on human intercouse.”

Principles of Road Making. ‘ The true principles of economic road making may be summed up in the following lines; A firm, dry foundation, sound materials laid on scientific principles, proper ahd ample drainage of both road bed and surface, easy gradients, easy and paturhl curves, a hard and compact surface, free from all ruts and depressiofis, with a surface neither too flat to prevent the flow of surface ‘water, nor too convex to be inconvenfent to traffic. —Seymour (Ind.) Bepub-

FILTERS FOR CISTERNS.

Those Made of Charcoal or Soft Bricky o Are the Cheapest. .

' To make a charcoal cistern filter, build a partition wall across the cistern, dividing it into two compartments, one occupying two-thirds of the entire space and the other the remaining third, and leave a number of Loles near the bottom of this wall about four inches square. Then plaster the wall on both sides with not less than two coats of cement mortar. Fill the smallest side of the partition wall with charcoal; then in the other side place about two feet in depth of coarse sand. Let the water run in on the charcoal. It will pass down through this under the partition wall and up through the sand. It will then be very pure. For a brick filter, build a wall across the center of soft brick, cemented at the connections. Run the water in on one side and pump out from the other. Or build a square chimney-like flue for the pump to stand in. The water percolates through the soft bricks, which take out impurities. Where the cross partition is used make it a little concave, say sixteen inches in six feet. The convex side of this wall must be .toward the side which receives the water and the concave toward the pump side. This gives it strength against sudden showers. The end of the partition wall must be strongly worked into the side walls and the whole carried up so high that the water will never overflow it.

It is an excellent plan to have water as it comes ft/'om the roof go through a screen . before reaching the cistern. Make a box and place at the mouth of the cistern, covering the bottom with wire gauze. Have a lid which will easily permit cleaning the cistern. Also arrange the conductor so as to prevent the first water from the roof going into the cistern, more . especially after a long dry spell.—Orange Judd Farmer. B e

CHEAP FRUIT DRYER.

It Can Be Built for Two Dollars and Sev= : enty-Five Cents.

Procure a dry goods box of a size to fit the top of the cbok stove and some '2O or 80 inches tall. The taller it is the more room for shelves. Take out the bottom and one side, which will make a door, and on each of the opposite sides nail strips of lath at the distance of 3or 4 incheg.as a support for drying shelves. These should be of galvanized wire cloth with mesh from 14 to ¥ inch tacked to a frame' of lath

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or light wood just large enough to slip into the box from the front. , Fasten at each of the four corners a stout piece of iron g .support -the box some 8 or 10 inches above the stove. This should be left open for the air to circulate through to prevent the fruit burning. A square of mosquitonetting should be tacked over the top to keep out the flies and other insects when not over the stove. Hang the door with light hinges ind a strap of leather to fasten over a nail or tack to hold the door shut, and one has a dryer that can easily dry a bushel of apples a day, or more if one attends to nothing else, and by this dryer one does not run the risk of losing the fruit if there does come a wet spell. For drying sweet corn the shelves will need covering with mosquito net. This dryer cost $2.75 and it. might have been made cheaper but for having to send a distance for wire cloth.—Azalia, in N. E. Homestead. L %

Manuring the Orchard.

Whether an orchard be bearing or not a summer application of manure rarely fails to make it more productive. If used as a top dressing there is little "loss. The shade of the tree will keep thé manure from excessive drying, and increases its value as a mulch. If manure be applied early’in the spring it may make too large wood growth. Stable manure for pear trees should be applied in July or August. It ‘will then have time to rot before danger of blight to the tree the following season. If put on in winter or spring :then the manure will -be in active fermentation just when the danger from blight is the greatest. While stable manure may be best applied now it is better to apply n.ineral fertilizers late in the winter or early in spring, so that they may be dissolved by rains ‘and made available during the summer.-—Colman’s Rural World. ' : -Work in the Garden. In a valuable article on seclecting and planting shrubs' in ‘Garden and Forest, it is urged that preparation in the planting should be commenced at once, although apparently early in the season. The ground should be thoroughly prepared this fall, dug deep, trenched if possible, filled in with good loam and properly drained when needed. Where this has been done; and the ground has been all winter firmly settling, it can be worked much earlier in the spring and planting much better dqne. Results from this preparation will be seen in a more vigorous growth, more luxuriant foliage and more abundant flowers and fruit. There is no work in the garden which pays better in the long run than thorotigh preparation of the ground at this season for J the trees and shrubs which’ are to bej placed in it the following year. =

Smail Fruits on the Farm.

Why do mot farmers raise more small fruits? No one who owns land can cffer a' reasonable excuse why he should not raise small fruitt No one family out of 20 on an average raises enough small fruit to hardly have a taste; while a good many do not raise any at all. A few rods of gronnd should be set off for a small fruit garden and planted to strawberries, gocoseberries, blackeaps, blackberries, ¢urrants, etc. These few rods o;l)ﬁd, ‘with a few dollars expended in choice and wellselected varieties, would give the family a selection of the most delicious and healthiest of all food.—Green’s Fruit Grower. = e

Saving from Good Roads. i The saving from good roads in the transportation of farm products alone would soon pay off every existing farm mortgage; in three years it would extinguish our national debt. I wonder m“a know that good, permanent ncrease the selling price of land in the neighborhood to an amount fu}'er than the cost of the roada - Niles (Mich.) Sum

Cheap Exoursions to the West.

&n exceptionally favorable opportunity for visiting the richest and most productive sections of the west and northwest will be afforded by the series of low rate harvest excursfons which have been arranged by the North-Western Line. Tickets for these excursions will be sold on August 22d, September 12th and October 10th, 1808, to points in Ijort%westem lowa, Western Minnesota, North Dakota, Bouth Dakota, Manitoba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, and will be good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale. Stop-over privileges will be allowed on going tri%in territory to which the tickets are sold. For furthersgnformation call -on or address Ticket Agents of connecting lines. Circulars giving rates and detailed information will be mailed free, upon application to WA. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago & North-Western Railway, Chic?ago. v ' =

A GiFrTED WOMAN.—“What expreéssive eyes your wife has!” said Manchester to Snaggs. ‘“Yes,” assented Snaggs with a sigh. ‘‘She ean express herseif very vigorously with her tongue, too.”—lndianapolis Journal. s 4

: New Through Sleeping Car Line From Chicago to Seattle via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Great Northern Railways, has been established and firstclass sleeping cars will hereafter run daily from Chicago at 11:30 P. M., arriving at Seattle 10:30 P. M., fourth day. This is undoubtedly the best route to reach the North Pacific Coast. i

For time tables, maps and other information apply to the nearest ticket agent or address Geo. H. HEAFFORD, Generui %’ﬁzss. Agent, C., M. & St. P. R'y, Chicago,

“JANETTE, I'm afrdid you are a vain little wife. You gaze into your mirror s wuch.” ‘“You oughn’t to blame me for that I haven't your advantage.” “What's that?”’ ‘“You can see my face without looking into a mrror.” ]

“] cAN heartily say to any young man who is wanting good employment, work for Johnson & Co., follow their instruction and vou will succeed.” So writes an ‘a\g‘e‘nt of B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Vi., and that's the way-all of their men talk.

© “You don’t dot your i’s or cross your t’s.”” said Mr. Dimity to his new bookkeeper.: *No, sir,”” was the reply. *ln these hard times—er—l thought it advisable not. to use any more ink than I could help, sir.”’—Harper’s -Bazar. - : Tt o

W. H. GrIFFIN, Jackson, Michigan, writes: “Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years, Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me.” Sold by Druggists, 7c. ! _ A

THE man who was out on a lark the night before feels like he had been on a wild-goose chase the next morning.—Topeka Journal. : :

BercEAM’s Priis are proverbially known as “Werth a Guinea a box,” but they are sold at 25 cents a box. . T

THE latest method of eloping is by biocycle. In such instancgs it is love which makes the wheels go round.—Buffalo, Express. i i oo

“Is BrßowN still discussing the financial situation?’”’ ¢“Noj; he’s done gone to work for a living!”—Atlanta Constitution, v

Dox'r N?{lect a Cough. Take Some Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar instanter. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.

A PALLEN meteor has a very downcast appearance in its own hole in the ground.— Picayune, -’ L e

THE killer of all the dead letters.—Miss Direction. - N %

To THE farmer, Nature’'s story-book is a never-ending céreal. =

i . THE MARKETS. . ! . NEw Yorxg, Oct. 1. . LIVE STOCK—Cattle..... .... ¥ 00 @ 5 10 ESheeN il i i s esen 200 BSO HegN L R T LUO 6 e | FLOUR—Fair to Fancy ....... 25 @ 30 | Minnesota Patents, . .c.... 340 @y 4 10 | WHEAT—No. 2Red......c.uns TR@ P ) Pngraded Red ... (..ol ¢6O @ 71% | CORN—No 2.... ....ceuvnnns =4By 491 Dngraded Mixed. ... . idbica . 48% a 49% | OATS—Mixed Western:........ 37 @ 37% ! RYE—WeStern.... ... ... cevees . 24 @. 5 . PORK-—MeSS ...... : “cvieca.. 18000 @lB 25 ° | LARD—We5tern..............;. 98) @ 98 | BUTTER—Western Creamery. = 20%4@ - 284 | CHICAGO. ey | BEEVES—Shipping Steersg.... $ 30 @ 5 70 ‘ COWS i« veidive vanieegomonnean i b-00 5@ 88 Stopßers. ... ... iiiie.s . 22000 20D FEeAOrB. . i o iuicioriendnise DL OV Bugl) > Butchers’ Steers...... ceeeee 300 @370 Bulls . [ oan - 150 @B6O THOGS oo e aeaiidnde 889 Gl GLBD SHERP. /0. i e b 9 aaqg 4 1p BUTLER—Creamery.... ..u...0i 23 @ 28% G DAY o i e v 7. @ 26 lEGGS—Fresh-.......... Shavieer 1Y S 1058 - BROOM CORN— s 3 | S 5 07 eA R SR S 3h@ 4% SRI-WOTKINEg. ... iiahvveey 3% a 4 Crooked ..o iiianaie T 1@ Slg POTATOES—New (per.bu).... 50 @ .62 GPORK-DMeBS. ....i-ivocnvavases 3000 @llO LARD—Steam........ i......... 920 @ 03) ' FLOUR—Spring Patents...... 275 - 430 Spring Straights ........... 18 @ 2 35° Winter Patent 5............. 29 @ 320 . Winter 5traight5............. 180 @ 1 90 GRAlN—Wheat No. 2........... 66%m 66X | Corny NG, 8.0 0 tviinien,s 06 SON i Ooas, Nouß. i anahial TR oy R 7 Rye, NO. .o ieeiisniseaanik |4O 010 4098 | Badevo: i Tl e o LUMBER— : el 1 SIAIAE. .. v iesebor snvensa AB D 0 @UE DD . | FIOOLTDE ... .eeen cece vaes vaes 37 V 0" @3B 00° ;3 Common Boards. ...... ... 14 25 @l4 50 | Fenci1g......................»13,00 @l6 00 ; Lath, Dry ... 00l ias S 5 @ 290 . Shingles.... ... odiciit Bdb @BOO ] KANSAS QIPY: oy oo CATTLE—Steers....... .. ..... £4O @.5 80" | Stockers and Feeders....... 220 @ 8.15. FOES st il s RN E 09 @S SHEEP (.ol e fraiiive: S5O 300 < OMAHA. . Tas i CATTLE—Feceders .co.c coveeeen 200 @ 350 Cown. .ty vl ki Gaiie 200 @2OO CHOGS D Skt ot e i SHEEP,. ..., .o 0l §BO @ &6 R BRL L L Li v S RO RS

FROM GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD. The change is fraught with dangers. If there be pain, headache and nervous disturbances, or the general health poor, the judicjous use of medicine should be em%lo ed. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrindion is t e{est tonic and nervine at this time. It brings - ‘about a Tregularity in = the womanly functions, Ao =S4 cures female weakness, QSB catarrhal inflammation, ’ &8 and uterine derange- ‘ - Y ments. 2 { , Seaview, Northampton } . - County, Va. 5 ) DR. R. V. PIERCE: Dear = f Sir—After taking your : i\ medicine I ereslh ke 8 CAEP>. new person. rec- < T ;? ommggd“you and jour GRS P7z= medicine wherever 1 go, o o, "~ YOour medicine has work- ] * ed wonders for me andls ocan not praise it too much. All of my ol symptoms have dinfppeu'ed. : . -o RV LLIErT GH MRs. 'A DOUGHTY. . ! A ; _ | - Guar- . antees a . OR MONEY REFUNDED,

EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE, ouR ¢¢J . "I.>’PLUG, DRUMMOND TOBACCO 00., ST. LOUIS. THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE | THE COOK HAD NOT USED SAPOLIO SHOULD BE USED IN EVERY KITCHEN.

R S i g e 20 i, ) A 0 o ';‘\ B 8 {0 Q TN\ N Y AR Y (e e "“ NI Wy’ sS== &2 ‘Brings comfort and improvement and tends to sersonal enjoyment. when rightly used. The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more “promptly adaptings the world’s best: products to the needs of ﬁhysical‘being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative prineiples embraced in the remedy, S{'rup of Figs. Gan Its excellence is due to its presenting in, the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative ; effectually cleansing the system, d‘is(felling’ colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly frée from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered.

“German Syrup”

Williamr McKeekan, Druggist at Bloomingdale, Mich. . ‘‘lhave had the Asthma badly ever since I came out of the army and though I have been in the drug business for fifteen years, and have tried nearly everything on the market, nothing has given me the slightest relief untila few months ago, when I used Boschee’s German Syrup. lam now glad to acknowledge the great qood it has.doneme. lam greatly relieved during the day and at nightgoto sleep without the least trouble.”” @

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